(A/N: So far *out of the 5 reviews I've gotten* it seems most of you were shocked by ch. 17, but did you like it?
I hope you guys like this one~ Seth wants vengeance~ Enjoy~~)
S POV
She fell asleep in my lap, all bandaged up like she was… My anger boiled over and I couldn't wait any longer. I knew Krystle would probably be upset with me… but I had to find Leah… If the situation had been reversed (say she had a sibling and they'd hurt me and I'd told her not to hurt the sibling…) I'm sure she would have done the same.
I snatched up a pillow that was at her feet (without disturbing her) and very slowly eased her head onto the pillow, out from on my lap. Then I stood up and gave her a kiss on the forehead before turning around and –
– running into Jake… and Nessie.
I couldn't explode in front of her… I'd have to wait.
Just then, Alice came into the room and noticed this… She noticed my anger instantly (my controlled anger).
"Nessie, would you come upstairs with me for a second?" she asked. Renesmee nodded and the two headed upstairs.
"I'm going to kill her…" I snarled the second the two were gone. My hands clenched into fists, all of my anger was racing back and out.
"Look, I know you're upset Seth–" Jake started to say.
"NO!" I cut in. "I'm not upset, I am FURIOUS! You don't know what it is like- you don't know how it FEELS to have your own sister as a threat to the one you love! How would YOU feel if, say, RACHEL hurt Renesmee? What would YOU do about THAT?"
Jake sighed. "I guess I see what you mean… but I'm going to have to come with you, someone has to tell you when enough is enough."
I only nodded, pressing my lips into a firm line, before heading past him and out the door, running into the woods to shift.
Leah was there and Embry wasn't.
Perfect.
I growled mentally at her, my fury focused, now, completely at her.
Then, Leah's thoughts betrayed her.
"Dam! She didn't leave… or die," she thought, but quickly tried to rein it in.
I was running towards her now, no, DASHING towards her. More snarls escaped from my lips. HOW could she even THINK that? How could she think that about my Krystle ESPECIALLY?
I wanted to rip her limbs off of her body slowly and painfully.
Leah's thoughts revealed that she was contemplating running… but then Jake joined us and stepped in.
"Leah, stay," he ordered and she froze.
I thought daggers at her as I neared where she was…
"HOW could you?" I screamed at her. "Even if you hate her, I LOVE her! HOW could you do that to ME? Can you not even respect THAT?"
"She drinks and feeds off of HUMANS," Leah snapped. As if I didn't know that! She always brought that up too. Was that her only arguing point as to why I shouldn't be with her?
Leah didn't have an answer to that. Even though I hadn't thought it directly at her, she still heard it.
"She used to," I reminded her. "REMEMBER, you were interrupting her hunt when you stupidly and rashly ATTACKED her!" My voice rose with every word.
Leah's scent hit my nose just then, she was close…
Then I realized… she was close enough to leap on.
My muscles coiled and I launched myself through the air and trees and landed on Leah, knocking her over and pinning her to the ground. Furious snarls were all but ripping their way out of my chest.
My entire being wanted to rip her to shreds, make her suffer for what she did to MY IMPRINT, the instinct and bond there was just THAT strong… But, a small voice inside of me remind me that she was my sister… and that Mom would kill me if I hurt her…
Of course… if she never found OUT….
All of a sudden I leaped off of Leah and crouched down low in a fighting stance, still snarling furiously.
Leah stood up. "Seth… I don't want to fight you."
This infuriated me because THIS is exactly what Krystle's reaction had been to Leah.
I used her words against her, then, my self-control at its breaking point.
"That makes it easier for me," I told her, sneering mentally, and then I lunged for her.
I hit her with my head and she flew into another tree. I heard something crack and I knew it wasn't JUST the tree (which fell over).
I heard the breath whoosh out of her and then I felt her pain. I held in my yelp, it had hurt a lot.
Then, my brotherly side came over me and I couldn't go any farther with this… My will was broken. I'd seen too much violence today, I just wanted to get back to Krystle now…
Then, a bit of my anger came back when I asked her a question as she lay on the ground panting (she'd live).
"WHY?" I questioned her.
Leah didn't even get a chance to speak before I continued.
"She doesn't even HATE you, OR dislike you! HECK, she's the most forgiving person I've ever met! I think she's crazy for still protecting you even after what you DID!" my voice was accusing now as I spoke.
Leah's mind had a hard time processing this…
"How could she NOT hate me…" she was thinking (to herself). "I always thought she did…" Then she asked me directly. "She NEVER hated me?"
I couldn't help but let out a little growl. "NO… In FACT, she all but begged me NOT to hurt you because she doesn't want you to hate her more! She only wants you to like her Leah. I can tell how much it bugs her that you don't, too. She used to mention that she thinks she's splitting up our family, but after a bit she never brought it up anymore, though I can tell it still nags at her… Of course, this only made me mad at YOU because of how much stress you put her through!"
Just then Jake stepped in, feeling my tension starting to build up again. "Leah, do you not remember the stories about the man who hurt a pack members imprint?"
Leah wasn't shocked that he was siding with me, but she did scowl a bit when he did.
Leah nodded her head. "Of course…" she barely whispered, remembering the stories very well.
"Then you might have a smidgen of an idea of how I feel right now," I cut in, my mental voice having a slight growl to it.
Jake nodded. "You may think you know what it's like to imprint simply because of how often you hear our thoughts, but you NEVER know fully until you actually experience it yourself.
"You completely devote your life to them; no they ARE your life. You would do anything for them, BE anything for them, and protect them and keep them happy with your dying breath…"
"And if they get hurt, or someone threatens them, your first instinct is to kill them so no harm comes to the one you love…" I though absent-mindedly and Leah winced.
"I don't want you to hate me Seth…" Leah whispered. "I want you to be happy…"
My anger suddenly swelled up again. "Then give me the CHANCE to BE happy! STOP trying to kill my imprint! NO, just stop HARASSING her PERIOD!"
Leah dipped her head in sorrow and nodded a bit. My fury completely evaporated then, I couldn't stay mad at her… She WAS my sister.
"I'm sorry Seth…" Leah finally breathed, looking at the ground (for she was still on it), not meeting my gaze.
That's when Jake stepped in.
"Seth, I think you should go now," he told me. His voice not a command, but I knew if I tried to NOT do as told (not that I WOULDN'T, I was dying to see Krystle again), he would make it a command.
Without so much as another thought from me (other than "Thank you"), I turned around a sprinted back towards the house, desperate to see my angel once again.
K POV
I slept soundly without so much as a dream… but my awake time was not nearly as peaceful as my sleep time.
When I woke-up, I awoke to pain.
I sucked in a sharp breath, flying to a sitting position with my arms quickly and firmly wrapped around my waist as the fiery feeling flared up in my abdomen.
Of course, I then discovered that my position did nothing to help the stitches in my back (it made them hurt WORSE actually), so I slowly laid down so neither would hurt more than the other.
The morphine had obviously worn off.
As the pain softened (but by ALL mean did NOT go away), I began to realize some things, like, first, that I was in my bed and had fallen asleep on the couch (Seth had probably carried me up here, knowing him. He was so sweet). I also noticed my phone on the charger next to my bed. I reached for it and plucked the cord out before checking the time. It was a little after two in the morning, Wednesday August 3rd… which meant I'd slept all of yesterday and into today…
There was no way I'd be falling back asleep ANY time soon, I wasn't tired, first of all, and secondly, the burning in almost every part of my body was hard to ignore.
I grew bored very easily, though, just lying there, so I decided to play some games on my iPhone (of which I had a lot of, thanks to Alice and the Cullens' INSAINE amount of money… and, even though I had a lot, my favorite had to be Diner Dash).
I played that for about 30 minutes before getting bored AGAIN and wondering if Seth was up… I didn't want to WAKE him by calling, so I decided to just send him a text (hopefully that wouldn't wake him up either).
Then, I played Sheep Toss for 15 minutes before my phone announced I had a text.
Seth was awake.
My text had read: "Hey, r u awake?"
His reply, "I just woke-up actually. Wats up Angel?"
"Did I wake you?" I asked him, instantly concerned.
"Nah. I'm a heavy sleeper, trust me… I woke-up becaz I was thinking- worrying about u actually,
he told me.
"~ Aw thts sweet," I replied.
"Your changing the subject, wats up?" Seth persisted.
Before I could type out my response, I got another text.
"R u ok?"
"Im fine… just… not tired," I told him.
Only a few seconds after I sent it, my phone started ringing.
"Your boy-boy, b-b-boy, b-b-boyfriend. Your boy-boy-"
I answered it, sighing. "Hello?"
"I can't tell if you are lying when you text me, so say that again," was Seth's first response.
"Greetings to you too…" I muttered.
Seth sighed. "Hello Angel, now please say that for me again."
I hesitated before speaking.
"I'm fine… I'm just not tired…" I barely whispered.
"Just as I thought, you ARE lying. There's more to it than that," Seth said, his suspicions confirmed.
"You don't need to worry about me, I'm fine," I repeated and Seth sighed again in exasperation.
"Krystle, it's my JOB to worry about you," he told me. "Now tell me what's wrong."
I took in a deep breath and then winced. "The morphine wore off…" I breathed, wincing again.
Seth was quiet.
"You're in pain then?" he asked quietly after a bit.
"Just a little…" I fessed up, not wanting to worry too much, not wanting to tell him the truth.
He groaned. "You are SUCH a bad LIAR! It's more than a little, isn't it?"
"Yes…" I whispered.
"Dam Leah for hurting you," he growled under his breath.
"Seth…" I began.
He cut me off.
"NO! I can be mad at her all I want, even if you're not! She MAY have apologized in the woods but that doesn't mean a THING! She still HURT you!" he snapped rather loudly.
I was shocked, shocked for two reasons; one, Seth RARELY yelled at me… and two –
"Leah apologized?" I asked, my voice as stunned whisper.
"Yes," Seth growled.
I didn't speak, not sure how to respond to that.
After a moment of silence, Seth's heavy breaths quieted down and he finally spoke again.
"Krystle?" he asked quietly.
"I'm still here…" I barely breathed. Seth sighed in relief.
"I'm sorry for yelling at you," he told me softly. "I didn't mean to be so harsh it's just… I'm – I feel VERY… protective of you… and when my own sister – !" he cut himself off, for his voice had begun to rise again. "I'm sorry," he repeated.
"You have nothing to apologize for," I reassured him softly.
Seth's next sentence surprised me.
"Wait, um Krystle? I know this is off topic but I just remembered something…" he told me.
"Go ahead…" I encouraged softly, though a bit afraid of what he might say.
"Before toda- … yesterday, how long had it been since you'd fed?" Seth asked, suspicion in his voice and concern for my answer.
"… 15 days…" I breathed very quietly.
Seth's voice had a layer of anger buried under it now. "And how long of breaks do you take between feedings normally?"
"… 3 days is the longest I've ever gone…" I admitted weakly, unable to lie to him, even if it would prevent him from having a stroke.
"3 DAYS?" Seth exploded, but then he quickly reined it in, his voice hard again. "WHY on earth hadn't you been feeding?"
I instantly became defensive. "BECAUSE I wanted to be good, good enough so that I might actually, you know, deserve to even look at you every day? Leah was always right! I'm just a monster and you deserve BETTER!"I told him harshly, crying now. "I wanted you to be proud of me instead of always defending my- my NATURE!
"I thought that maybe I could just NOT feed at ALL, but then that wasn't working and Edward found out and –"
S POV
I couldn't believe what she was telling me… ALL of this was Leah's fault, too! All of these… stupid, TWISTED images she had of herself as some monster were all WRONG!
Then she mentioned something about Edward.
"Wait, what does Edward have to do with all of this?" I asked her, my voice barely controlled.
"He's known about my plan… for a while…" she admitted in a whisper. My anger built up; why hadn't he told me?
"And…" I persisted in a hard tone.
"When he first found out, he tried to talk me out of it," Krystle explained. "That didn't work because of my stubbornness… but I made him promise not to tell you…"
I scowled.
"By about the 12th day, you and Renesmee smelled… irresistible… and then by yesterday… I caved in," she admitted, her voice back down to a soft whisper. "I had to leave the house the second after you did… and I went hunting… like the Cullens do… That's when Leah jumped me."
I pinched the bridge of my nose, trying to control my breath and shaking; I refused to yell at her again, too… Even once at night was inexcusable.
Finally, I managed to speak.
"Promise me that you will NEVER starve yourself again," I told her, my voice low and hoarse.
Krystle sighed. "Seth –"
"PROMISE me," I all but growled.
"… I promise…" Krystle whispered.
I sighed, too, in relief. "Good…" Just then, I yawned.
"You're tired," Krystle noted. "You can go back to sleep now Seth."
"No, I can stay up with you," I told her stubbornly.
"NO," she said just as stubbornly, "you need your rest. I've slept for half a day (or more), YOU haven't, so sleep, I'll live."
I sighed, she always won. "Fine… I will… I love you," I told her.
"I love you, too," she told me and I could hear the smile in her voice. I smiled, too.
"Bye," I whispered.
"Goodnight Seth," she purred and then she hung up.
I sighed sadly and put my phone back on the stand next to my bed before lying down on the mattress again and closing me eyes. I quickly fell asleep.
(A/N: Well? What did you think? I know it took a while to update, but I had lots of stuff going on BTW
READ THIS: Okay so I started a new story that will branch off of this one a bit called "Black Eyes, Blue Tears." Its and Embry imprint story and Krystle and Seth will have some interlacing chapters in it if you wish to read it~ I hope you liked this chapter!
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